The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-30

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mortgage on your return steamer ticket for
anything you get. II you want to. On Ok
ford street, prices arc lower, and in plenty Of
side streets you may experience the advan-
tage of buying goods at very reasonable
rates.
We saw the queen the FIRST week we got to
town, something that every American can't
say, and we did not 60 into raptures over her,
for obvious reasons. She came in from Wind
sor TO open the Peoples palace in the East
End and rode seven miles through the city In
her open carriage. had a good view Of her
and the Princess Beatrice Battenberg, and
am compelled TO confess that she was very
fat and very red In the face, and not nearly
SO handsome as her daughter. She has the
regulation English face, and have seen doz
ems Of women Of her age IN the country who
could be dressed up and sent through town In
her carriage for the queen, and nobody be
the wiser She wore black silk dress, with
q lace mantle about her shoulders; her bonnet
was black with q bunch Of white flowers In
the top, and she wore no jewelry that | could
see. She bowed automatically as she rode
along; a kind of n swinging monotonous mo-
ton of the head such as Indian women adopt
trace of smile on her face as she passed
The papers said there were 100000 people
ofo,,a the route of her ride that day, and ]
don't doubt il; but nouo that l saw, and
went all along the East End, where the poorest
live, had less joy in their faces than did this
great queen of England and empress OF INDIA
The way was decorated with flags and mot
toes and "God Save the Queens" and the
usual patriotic spread, but doubt If she saw
apy of it, and | know she didn't enjoy 1t.
She had numerous retinue OF guards, and
three or four other carriages besides her own,
all more or less elaborate, but none very muGn
in excess of n circus procession IN our own
country when it first appears in the spring.
Royalty is great institution, but to save my
life can't see it on parade and help thinking
what snap it would be if Barnum could cor
ral few royal nibses and take them on exhi
bition just as they are-taken on the spot, as
it were. The real thing beats any imitation
have ever seen.
The queen seems 10 be the very deity the
people worship. Not in politics, of course,
but in trade and fashion and business and
everything else, and to sell anything to her or
20 any of the family at once gives the seller
sign grocer, or tobacconst or beer seller, or
pawnbroker TO her majesty the queen, or his
highness the prince of Wales, or some OF the
rest of them.
heard a story about this phase of royalty
lately. 1t seems the princess of Wales, the
most popular of all the family, knows u
young lady who was n governess or some
thing of the sort, and the two women are
very fond of each other. The ex-governess
lives out in o country village, and there her
royal highness goes, or did 60, to spend the
day with her at frequent intervals One day
she came out unexpectedly. and the hostess
was short in the pantry She sent over at
once TO the butcher for steak, and told him
to send the best, as the princess was to par
take of it, This the worthy butcher did, OF
course, and the next day he had out a fine
sign, $50 i'd So, Butcher TO Her Royal High
ness the Pl incess of Wales"
"V. r." ire the popular letters for mono
grams in riany places, especially, Of course, In
public buildings, and stands in England about
as U. S. does with u.s. The first time Dickey
saw them thought they staggered her.
"What does V. r. meanl' said she, inno-
Gently, as it showed up ON n little shop.
"Victoria Regina" said /, very consider
ately.
"Oh, do theyp said she. II didn't know
but what they meant Victims Of Royalty"
Possibly Dicsey wasn't so far wrong, but /
anu not here for.political purposes, and If the
English taxpayers want to put up their
millions every year for royalty and stint
themselves am sure it's none ofmy business.
One thing do know, and ! am glad OF it,
and that is that the biggest man" in Eng
land is woman, and though she doesn't vote
and make stump speeches, she is boss OF the
establishment aud no other candidate can
beat her before the convention.
Hooray for Queen Victori2
upatetu eail nickev MARY JANE